Red Hat set to launch Java app server

Red Hat will release its first Java application server at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday (2 August), broadening its business beyond the Linux open-source operating system.

Red Hat Application Server will be sold on a subscription basis with services and support, in a similar pricing model to that which Red Hat uses for its Linux OS, according industry sources. Pricing is likely to also be announced at LinuxWorld.

The software is based on JOnAS (Java Open Application Server), an open-source application server developed by ObjectWeb, a non-profit middleware consortium in Europe. It incorporates the Apache Software Foundation's Tomcat Java servlet engine and Struts, a software framework for building Java web applications.

Red Hat said last August that it would work with ObjectWeb to offer a Red Hat-branded application server. A beta version was released in December.

Red Hat Application Server will compete with proprietary offerings from BEA Systems, IBM and Oracle. It will also turn up the heat on JBoss, the leading open-source Java server supplier.

One effect of the open-source products has been to apply pricing pressure to the proprietary suppliers, analysts have said. Sun Microsystems, which has struggled to boost its middleware business, offers a low-end version of its application server for free.

Red Hat said last year that it would also release clustering software to link groups of servers together and programming tools based on the open-source Eclipse project. Along with the application server, the products comprise what it calls its Open Source Architecture, a collection of server software for businesses that runs on its Linux OS.

ObjectWeb was founded in 2002 to foster the development of a range of open-source middleware. Along with Red Hat, its members include Bull, France Télécom and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control.

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